Karl Rove, former top Bush adviser, threatened with citizen's arrest for lying to take the US into Iraq war

Karl Rove, the former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and top Bush adviser was threatened with a citizen's arrest at a recent book signing event in California.

A co-founder of the activist group Code Pink, which has repeatedly interrupted both Republican and Democratic political figures' speeches with questions about the Iraq war in the past, brandished handcuffs at the former Bush adviser during a speech Monday night in Beverly Hills.

"Look what you did, you outed a CIA officer,'' Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans asserted, referring to former CIA officer Valerie Plame. "You lied to take us to war. You ruined a country.''

A second protester then called Rove a "war criminal." "The only comfort I take is that you're going to rot in hell,'' she said.

"With all due respect, this goes to show the totalitarianism of the left," Rove countered. "They don't believe in dialogue. They don't believe in courtesy. They don't believe in First Amendment rights for anybody but themselves.'' "If you want to keep interrupting me, you can get the heck out of here,'' Rove said.